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An eye at the top of the world : the terrifying legacy of the Cold War's most daring CIA operation

Title
An eye at the top of the world : the terrifying legacy of the Cold War's most daring CIA operation / Peter Takeda.
Author
Takeda, Pete.
Publication
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Description
xix, 332 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"Incredibly, in the early 1960s, the CIA decided to put a nuclear-powered spy device on top of Nanda Devi - one of the Himalayas' most remote and forbidding peaks. The goal was to gather information on Chinese troop movements. Some time later, the apparatus stopped sending signals; it was as though it had completely disappeared. The device was never recovered, and as you read these words, nearly four pounds of plutonium, locked in the glacier beneath the mountain, are moving ever closer to the source of the Ganges River. That's enough manmade poison to kill every human on earth, or to produce a bomb capable of flattening a city." "Takeda, an internationally recognized rock, ice, and alpine climber, not only interviewed surviving members of the original expedition - during which the climbers huddled around the spy device for the warmth given off by the decay of radioactive elements - he retraced their steps to the peak itself. An Eye at the Top of the World is both a dramatic history and harrowing present-day account of Takeda's expedition to solve the mystery of Nanda Devi."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
1560258454
LCCN
9781560258452
OCLC
  • ocm71430790
  • SCSB-5282992
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries